Posts for the Documentary Category
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The Art Life- "There's mines over there, there's mines over there, and watch out those goddamn monkeys bite!" November 10, 2009Focus on Hopper’s AmericaThurs 3 - 13 December, 2009The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) present Focus on Hopper’s America, a film season examining a period of rapid social and political change in the United States and the parallel artistic transformation in which Dennis Hopper played a key role.The program coincides with Dennis Hopper and the N […]
- "There's mines over there, there's mines over there, and watch out those goddamn monkeys bite!" November 10, 2009
- Ballardian
- “Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1) November 5, 2009The story of Savoy Books is one of the most strangest in publishing history: a tale of lost opportunities, missed opportunities, repression, censorship, imprisonment ... and, most importantly, an incredible legacy of work that continues to disturb, challenge and confront. Mike Holliday talks to Savoy co-founder Michael Butterworth about all this and more, in […]
- “Driven by Anger”: An Interview with Michael Butterworth (the Savoy interviews, part 1) November 5, 2009
- Cabinet
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- The Guardian Culture
- Boogie sights November 12, 2009 Anna Pickard
- British art deco? I should coco November 12, 2009 Jonathan Glancey
- Full throttle November 12, 2009 Patrick Barkham
- Infosthetics
- Life Without Buildings
- Subverting the Spectacle of Modern Times: Charlie Chaplin and the Situationists[Still from Modern Times] “The construction of situations begins beyond the ruins of the modern spectacle. It is easy to see how much the very principle of the spectacle – nonintervention – is linked to the alienation of the old world. Conversely, the most pertinent revolutionary experiments in culture have sought to break the spectators […]
- Subverting the Spectacle of Modern Times: Charlie Chaplin and the Situationists
- New Shelton Wet/Dry
- ‘The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.’ –ShakespeareIs it our experiences or our genes that make us who we are? Studying twins has revealed unexpected, and often unnerving, insights into the nature versus nurture debate. Imagine receiving a phone call out of the blue. You find the voice on the other end eerily familiar as it tells you some life-changing news: you are, [...]
- ‘The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite.’ –Shakespeare
- Quiet Babylon
- Glimpses of a City15. The gas station has long been abandoned. For some reason, one of those old coke machines is still there, still working, and still stocked. A beacon across the darkened parking lot, you find yourself going out of your way to investigate, one hot summer night. To your surprise, the price is 50¢. You buy a [...]
- The Objectless Office – Dematrialization 3There were a lot of new buzzwords in play in 1999 when I was taking calls for our local Telecom’s ISP. This was 1999, just before the dotCom bubble burst; an exciting time that demanded exciting verbiage. Multimedia. Information Super-Highway. eVerb-of-your-choice. My favourite was “Paperless Office”. We used to use it as a kind of curse [. […]
- Glimpses of a City
- Triple Canopy
- Thinking Through Images #1“A screaming comes across the sky.”
- Thinking Through Images #1
